[UniMacTech] Symbols in Word on Mac and PC

Kate Morris krm at karemo.com
Thu Mar 12 11:59:09 EST 2009


> I suspect font as well.  Try with something that's most likely to have
> common character maps across both operating systems, like Courier or
> Helvetica, and see what happens.

There are known Unicode encoding issues with various fonts, particularly
those containing symbols. Different OSs interpret a subset of the font
symbols in different ways.

Read this as a starting point:
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=FontFAQ_Display
It probably wont answer your specific question, but it should help you get
an understanding of the problem.

You need to do one of the following:
- Find a font that encodes the Greek characters using Unicode codes that
are interpreted the same way in Windows 2007 on both the Mac and Windows.
- Remember to 'fix up' the problem characters on the appropriate platform
prior to submission.

Hope that helps.

Cheers,
Kate.


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